AUGUSTA — Dr. Sheila Pinette has resigned as the state’s chief health officer a month after taking the job, hastening an organizational shakeup at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Pinette has served as the state’s top public health official since 2011. She oversaw the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention during […]
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Breaking: State CDC director takes new role in DHHS
AUGUSTA — The director of Maine’s Center for Disease Control is moving to a new position. Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew announced Sheila Pinette will become Chief Health Officer for DHHS while Ken Albert will take over as director of CDC. “The Maine Centers for Disease Control is headed in an […]
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Flu cases in Maine triple over last year
Maine has three times as many confirmed cases of influenza now than it did this time last year, according to new numbers from the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention. Doctors say: Wash your hands, cough smart and get the flu shot — even though the strain of flu seen most often here isn’t […]
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Lawmakers vote to subpoena Maine CDC officials involved in document-shredding probe
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee voted Friday to subpoena officials at the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention to appear before the committee. The committee had invited five CDC officials to provide information Friday about the destruction of public records, including Director Sheila Pinette, Deputy Director Christine Zukas, Office of Minority […]